Movie Story : Hodja is a daydreamer who longs to see the world, but his father insists he stay home and run the family tailor shop. A chance meeting with the elderly rug merchant El Faza changes everything when he receives a flying carpet in exchange for a promise: bring the old man's granddaughter Diamond back to Pjort. El Faza cannot make the journey himself, since the Sultan has sentenced him to death for supposedly stealing the ruler's carpet.